A Glide Wrapper is a program that fools the applications and games that there is a Voodoo board in your computer, so you can run those Glide games in any 3D accelerator that supports OpenGL.
What is OpenGL?
OpenGL stands for Open Graphics Library, it is a "Graphics library" ;-) that allows the programmer to do 2D/3D applications and games, it is a standard in these days and almost all Operational Systems have it. But, this version of OpenGLide only runs on Windows systems ( 95/98/NT/2000 ).
Installation:
Copy or Unzip the Glide2x.dll file to the "windows\system" directory ( usually: c:\windows\system )
Configuration File
------------------
In every Glide game directory that you run will appear a OpenGLid.INI file, this file is the configuration for OpenGLide in this Game
PalettePrecision=16
This value can be beetween 1 and 255. Raise it to get more speed in Palette based games, but you will loose visual quality.
TextureMemorySize=4
This is the ammount of Megabytes the wrapper is using to store Textures, the Default value is 4 Megabytes, i didn't make much test about it, so i cannot say that raising it will be better or worse, so i expect as much feedback as i can in this Option, Test it for me and tell me which value is best for your system.
All the other configurations can be 0 (zero, disabled) or 1 (one, enabled), the default config file is fine.
ThroubleShooting
----------------
If something goes wrong in the graphic section, try disabling these options:
EnableWrap565=0
EnablePackedPixelsEXT=0
EnableVertexArrayEXT=0
Details
-------
If you enable VertexArrayEXT and everything is fine, leave it enabled, because it is faster.
Fog only work if FogCoordEXT is enabled and your video board support this OpenGL extension, all TNT/TNT2/GeForce with drivers 3.x have, i don't know about the rest. But i plan on doing fog for others boards too, but will take long.
regards with trying to run this wrapper in UT:
* when you start UT it doesn't show the window or the window is blank,
just hit ALT-TAB to another window and then hit ALT-TAB again to UT
window, this should work.
* If everybody helps, support will be great *
Thanks
------
I would like to thanks all of you who supported me and sended Log files, configurations files, error files, bugs, suggestions, questions, without your help, i would have quit doing this a long time ago, but i would like to really, really thanks the guys that tested and tested and tested my Beta versions and helped me, giving me space on webpages and support:
All the staff of GU ( www.glideunderground.com )
* Khalid
* GrdLock
Tuomas Lukinmaa
Le Routier
Derek Smart
Luigi from Emulation64
Please, continue to send me BUGS and solutions
Please e-mail me at:
openglide@usa.net
So i can work hard to make it a "partial" (never will be fully)
Glide->OpenGL wrapper.
version 0.04a
-------------
Some bug fixes and the ability to change the ammount of Texture Memory
version 0.04
------------
Lots of OpenGL extensions implemented
Faster
Fog implemented if you have FogCoordEXT
Some minor bugs fixed
Should work on more games
version 0.03beta
----------------
Palette textures work, at last....
UT runs "almost" perfect, it still has that ALT-TAB bug in the begining
version 0.03alpha
-----------------
Palette textures should work, but it is buggy somehow, removed
directX because it didn't do anything, fog doesn't work, but will soon.
Faster than previous versions.
Lots of bugs, this is because i am redoing most of the code as i
restarted to work on the wrapper.
version 0.02
------------
I know i should not do this but this release fixes a lot
of blend modes and adds some other things like Fog. I started to work
to mix DirectX and OpenGL to make LFB accesses, but it doesn't appear
to be working now.
Fog is a little bit slow, since it is emulated, so i put an
Option in the INI file if you want to enable it. Well it is a little
buggy too... ;-)
DirectX is enabled in the INI too, but it doesn't do much, try
it out and send me the Results.
There is another option in the INI that fixes w-buffering
problemsin 16-bit z-buffer boards, i did this way because the original
version works better in 32-bit color (24-bit z-buffer).
Versions prior to 0.02
----------------------
Well, not much to say here.
This wrapper has only been tested on UltraHLE,
don't claim it does not work with anything else.
This is not finished, not perfect, or anything else,
it is just another wrapper. It runs Zelda with menus, and Mario
with all that transparent stuff.
It has bugs, lots of them, Mario's black face is one of them,
the Nintendo Logo at zelda is another, i am fixing it.
If you wanna run Mario without artifacts, set your desktop
to 32-bit color (only the cards that accept it: TNT, Riva 128...).
I don't know how this wrapper will behave on other systems,
mine is a TNT with a k6-2 400, so enjoy... or not.... ;-)
When you run it for the first time it will create an INI file,
"OpenGLid.INI", the only option that exists is "InitFullScreen", you
can set it to 1 (one) ot 0 (zero), this means, if it is 1 than it will
change resolutions and init fullscreen. If a game, or a demo does not
work ok at fullscreen, change it to 0.
I forgot, if you hit ESC on ultraHLE and nothing happens,
try ALT-TAB until you see UltraHLE program, and then hit ESC,
this will soon be fixed.
regards,
Fabio Barros
openglide@usa.net
VERSIONS
========
Version 0.01a
* Faster, > 20% on my system
* INI file to choose beetween Fullscreen and Window mode
Version 0.01b
* Faster, 10% over 0.01a
* Fixed (i hope) the memory hungry of OpenGLide
Version 0.01c
* Fixed the Texture bug
* Some more optimizations
Version 0.02
* Fixed a lot of Blend modes, so Mario's black face is gone, N64 logo on Zelda looks ok
* Add Fog emulation
* Started DirectX integration
* 16-Bit w-buffer fix
Version 0.02a
* Fixed more Blend modes
Version 0.02b
* Some other fixes
Version 0.03alpha
* Lots of bug fixes
* Palette textures work, but there is a problem with blending with Palette, humm, any help?
